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1. Andy Dickinson

   December 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm

   The site looks great.

   You took the same route as me Alf. Having tinkered with Mambo and worked with PROPS to get newsday sites running I thought that wordpress must be able to do the deed with minimal tweaking.

   I balked a little at the 99 bucks for the news theme - not because its not worth it, it’s a nice theme but because I thought I would wait too long for the money

   So I looked around and found a free template called mimbo. Took a bit of tweaking but it seems to work. And I came across the same plug ins as you.

   You can see an example at http://www.ukjournalism.co.uk/newsday/

2. Alfred Hermida

   December 7, 2007 at 5:18 pm

   Thanks Andy. UCLan Newsbiscuit looks good and reflects the versatility of WordPress. I took a look at Mimbo but in the end decided it wasn’t quite as student-friendly as I would have liked.

3. Frederick

   December 13, 2007 at 11:18 pm

   A nice, straightforward site that seems to do the job of letting users focus on the news. On small suggestion: the design would benefit from something clearly separating the byline from the first word of each article–perhaps putting the byline in bold? Very good work.

4. David

   February 4, 2008 at 4:37 am

   Creating a student journalism website on a tight budget you can download word press or other CMS and you can get free hosting as well but not classy, cheap hosting is about $3 per month

   http://studentsforum.co.uk

5. Drew Geraets

   February 11, 2008 at 9:09 am

   That site looks great! We’ve had a good time working with WordPress for our News Service. I started working on an open-source magazine theme, but need to start working on it again.

6. Andy the Celebrity

   March 2, 2008 at 4:13 pm

   Great wordpress plug-in suggestions, many thanks for the suggestions!

7. Renee

   March 13, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   Thanks so much for such a great post. Following this and reading a few other similar blogs we have decided to go down the same path for creating our university student publication, using WordPress and revolution. I am however reasonably new to WordPress so I was wondering whether you can direct me to step by step instructions on getting started, setting up the theme and just the basics of posting to it.

   Any help much appreciated

8. Richard Ryan

   March 15, 2008 at 9:04 pm

   I’m loving your website, I think you’ve done great things with the design. For my site, which holds my CV and details of the magazines I’ve worked on over the years, I used Moonfruit.

   Apart from my site (which is still under construction), I have no links to the company, so I can say without fear of appearing biased that I think they are the best way to get a website up and running.

   I know nothing about web design, but they give you loads of templates to use if you need them, or you can start with a blank page and make whatever look you like.

   Honestly, I can really recommend it. I’ll stop now as I’m sounding a bit like an advert! Cheers - Rich

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